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Manipulated Deepfake Video of Lai Ching-te Endorsing Rivals in Lead-up to January Presidential Elections

December 16, 2023

In the lead-up to Taiwan's presidential election in January 2024, a deepfake video surfaced featuring candidate Lai Ching-te appearing to endorse his rivals. This incident underscores the threat of disinformation, particularly Chinese-originated campaigns like Spamouflage, on the integrity of elections. With Project Cerebellum's AI governance and incident mapping capabilities, we can better understand and mitigate such risks through HISPI Project Cerebellum TAIM (Govern, Map). JOIN US to contribute to harm prevention in AI.

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Alleged deployer
people's-liberation-army, chinese-communist-party, base-311
Alleged developer
people's-liberation-army, chinese-communist-party, base-311
Alleged harmed parties
taiwanese-voters, lai-ching-te, electoral-integrity, democratic-progressive-party, democracy

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/667

Data source

Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).

When citing the database as a whole, please use:

McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

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